ageism

['eidʒizəm]

n.对老年人的歧视

例句与用法：

I have a distinct sense of the passing of time, and I do want to grow old gracefully. I don't want to be some kind of ageing pop singer.

我明显地感到时光的流逝。岁月不饶人，我不想成为某种上了年纪的流行歌手。

I asked Tony why he was late to work and he told me some hard-luck story about having to take his mother's ageing pet poodle to the vet because it had swallowed a chicken bone.

我问托尼为什么上班迟到。他告诉我他碰到了倒霉事，他母亲那条宝贝的长卷毛狗因为咽下了一根鸡骨头，他只得送它去看兽医。

Ageing is accompanied by a slow degeneration of his mental faculties.

随着年龄增长,智力逐渐衰退。

词形变化：

形容词: ageist |

详细释义：

n.

老年歧视; 年龄歧视

We let her move in because we wanted to make a statement about ageism in America.

为了将美国老人受歧视的现象公诸于世, 我们让她搬进来。